Month: August 2022

Posted on 08/01/2022 By: Sean There’s an expression in Hollywood – if you’re going to steal, steal from the best. Keith Thurman has apparently taken those words to heart. Danny Garcia returned to the ring after a lengthy absence Saturday night, beating Jose Benavidez in impressive fashion. In the post fight interview, the fighter known
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News Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing The decision to fight noted puncher Miguel Marriaga this Saturday speaks to Michael Conlan’s confidence, writes Elliot Worsell IT is customary following any big knockout loss for us to look for weaknesses or evidence of reticence in the knocked-out boxer as they attempt to resume his or her career. Often, their
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Two-division world champion Danny “Swift Garcia dominated in his super welterweight debut Saturday night, cruising to a majority decision victory over exciting contender Jose Benavidez Jr. in the SHOWTIME main event from Barclays Center in Brooklyn headlining a Premier Boxing Champions event. He saved perhaps his most expressive moment post-fight when he broke down in
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The big reveals in Eddie Hearn’s 30-minute Instagram Q&A this morning tended towards the “more info very soon” side of things, but a handful of concrete details snuck through, namely his confirmation that Joe Cordina and Josh Warrington would face their IBF mandatory challengers in “October/November” of this year. IBF mandatories can charitably be described
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WBA, IBF, IBO middleweight champion Gennadiy “GGG” Golovkin is inching closer to his trilogy showdown with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez. Golovkin will head up to 168-pounds to challenge Canelo for his undisputed super middleweight crown on September 17 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Their first two encounters took place at the middleweight limit of 160-pounds. In 2017,
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News Mark Robinson/Matchroom Boxing On the day he turns 34, featherweight Leigh Wood reflects on his role in arguably the best fight of 2022 and discusses the possibility of a sequel ONE of British boxing’s great late bloomers, Nottingham featherweight Leigh Wood turns 34 years of age today, yet, 28 fights into his professional career,
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NEW YORK – Danny Garcia planned to discuss his mental health struggles during his post-fight interview with Showtime’s Jim Gray on Saturday night. The 34-year-old Garcia just didn’t expect emotions to overwhelm him when he talked about everything he went through while working his way back to boxing. Garcia got out only a couple sentences
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11:01 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Jose Ramirez will wait a little bit longer for the opportunity to regain his WBC junior welterweight title. He scrapped plans for a vacant title fight against Jose Zepeda that was ordered by the WBC because of a conflict with his wedding in October, a spokesperson for Ramirez said in
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